Microsoft unveiled plans to add DNS over HTTPS support to the Windows 10 operating system.
The announcement was made on the Microsoft Networking blog on November 17. DNS over HTTPS is designed to improve the privacy, security, and reliability of each connection by encrypting DNS queries that are delivered in plain text.
DNS over HTTPS sounds very recent. OR MozillaThe Google, Opera as well as many public DNS providers (Cloudflare) announced their support for the standard. DNS over HTTPS support from a program web browsing, means that DNS queries originating from this program are encrypted. Other questions, e.g. from another browser that doesn't support DNS over HTTPS or did support it but doesn't use it, doesn't encrypt DNS queries.
Η ανακοίνωση της Microsoft αναφέρει ότι το λειτουργικό σύστημα των Windows θα αρχίσει να υποστηρίζει το DNS over HTTPS. Η εταιρεία σχεδιάζει να παρουσιάσει το νέο feature in some preview of Windows 10 in the future before making it available in the “final version” of the operating system.
Η Microsoft σχεδιάζει να ακολουθήσει την εφαρμογή της Google, initially at least. Google has revealed that it does not change system DNS. Mozilla and Opera instead choose a new provider that replaces the local DNS provider in the browser.
Microsoft says it won't make changes to the settings του DNS server των Windows. Οι διαχειριστές (και οι users) will have full control over the choice of DNS on Windows, and support for DNS over HTTPS on Windows will not change that.
Change can benefit users without even knowing it. If one system is configured to use another DNS provider that supports DNS over HTTPS, this system will automatically use the new standard so that the data sent to the DNS server continues to be encrypted.
Microsoft has revealed four guiding principles for implementing the project:
- Windows DNS should be as private and functional as possible, without requiring any user or administrator configuration because Windows DNS traffic is part of the user's browsing history.
- Windows users and administrators should be encouraged to use the settings even if they don't know what DNS means.
- Windows users and administrators should be able to improve DNS settings with as few and simple actions as possible.
- Windows users and administrators should explicitly allow switching to encrypted DNS when it is already set up.
Microsoft has not revealed a timetable for completing the project. Of course, as you understand, integrating DNS over HTTPS into Windows is more valuable than integrating the feature into individual programs.
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